Another year kicked off and already a lot of useful VMware UEM forum discussions went on. Therefore I want to share my top 3 favorite/informative UEM Community Forum discussions of January/February 2018 in this blog post.

I’m not too sure, to be honest. Nothing changed on UEM’s side, but I think Windows 8 or 10 changed how/when exactly the logoff script runs…

Does Administrative Templates\System\Scripts|Display instructions in logoff scripts as they run maybe help for this? You might see an additional command prompt window, but maybe that also results in our splash screen actually being visible?

#1 – Interactive Session Logon time

This is not really a question relating to UEM, more vrealize / View in general; however, I thought this seems to be the most obvious place to post as folk in here are far more obsessed with logon times and probably better placed to help.

I’ve been tweaking some existing UEM & App Volume deployments to try and optimize logon times as best as possible with some good success. By tweaking some of the UEM configs, I’m able to get logon times from 90 seconds to around 30- 40 seconds. However, I’m struggling to reduce the interactive session logon time at all. Vrops is showing many users interactive times as being as high as an additional 150 seconds. What I can’t figure out is what effects this part of the process.

There’s very little detail on what VMware define the Interactive Session Logon time metric as (as in zero reference). I’ve found the definition Citrix use, which is that is the time between a user seeing the VDI desktop and being able to use the mouse/kb to interact with it. Is this true in the Horizon world?

More to the point, does anyone have any idea of what specifically happens during this period? Do App Stack attachments happen in this section, or anything else that I can start to look at?

Ivan de Mes works as an EUC Solution Architect for Login Consultants in The Netherlands. Ivan has over 19 years of experience in delivering workspace solutions at large customers in banking, health care, education and others.